Marvin Austin took care of business Wednesday. Nattily dressed in a black pin-striped suit with his dreadlocks in a ponytail and carrying an attach, USA TODAY's Defensive Player of the Year from Ballou High made his first important decision. "I'm a Tar Heel," he told a national television audience announcing he'd signed a binding national letter-of-intent to play football at the University of North Carolina.

A registered sex offender suspected of abducting a 6-year-old girl was arrested Saturday in a nearby town, sheriff's deputies said. George Richard Horner, 26, was taken into custody at an airport near the town of Coolidge after negotiating with an investigator through cellphone calls and text messages.

The beauty of the Byrnes (Duncan, S.C.) offense is in its orchestration. It starts with the shrewd play-calling of head coach Bobby Bentley and the quick execution of the passing game by quarterback Willy Korn. That's what happened last week when Byrnes, No. 11 in the USA TODAY Super 25 rankings, beat York 45-0 in the Class 4A, Division II quarterfinals. It took Byrnes 30 seconds and four plays to travel 80 yards after the opening kickoff.